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The Greek 'bail-out' as illustrated by Ben Jennings

By Pontus Westerberg, 1 March 2012

In what is essentially a return to 1990s style structural adjustment, the Greek government has this week been forced to cut the minimum wage by another 22%, pensions by another 13%, rewrite its constitution to prioritise debt repayment and sell off even more public companies in return for another EU 'bail out'. Here is cartoonist Ben Jennings' take on it.

Cartoon by Ben Jennings - and IMF and EU snake is fighting with Greek statues

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Pontus is web officer at WDM. He looks after WDM’s websites, social media channels, emails and anything else digital.

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